Dan Stromberg wrote: > What's the best way of converting this: > > 'hide\\?http://www.dedasys.com/articles/programming_language_economics.html\x012005-07-20 > 14:48' > > ...to something easily usable in a python CGI script?
easily usable for what purpose? if you want to extract the URL that seems to be hidden in that string, something like: url, junk = text.split("\x01", 1) junk, url = url.split("\\?", 1) should work. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list